Music
Je suis retombé sur cette critique de Steve McQueen, de Prefab Sprout, par mon compère Joe Gantdelaine. J’ai bien ri, et j’en ai profité pour réécouter l’album… que j’aime plutôt bien. 🤣🎵
Fun intro (making fun of late night shows) and outro (making fun of videos from the tech scene) for DIIV’s new video for the shoegazing track Brown Paper Bag 🎵
A train of thought just helped me remember the article I wrote about hidden tracks. Having a laugh re-discovering the Hidden-Tracks Nightmares playlist I created on Spotify for the occasion. It might be the worst playlist ever. As intended. 🎵
They get it from TikTok and the algorithm.
— Alexis Petridis, Guardian’s rock and pop critic, when asked how his teenage kids discover new music
This is why my friend Joe Gantdelaine and I make playlists.
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Camera Obscura will release a new album this year. Great band and the new single, Big Love, sounds very promising. 🎵
Melanie died a week ago. No mention of it in France. I found out reading Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s (excellent) newsletter. Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma is one of my all-time favorites, as mentioned on Dead Rooster. 🎵
C’est cette chanson [To The End (La Comédie)] et pas une autre qui m’a convaincu du talent particulier de Damon Albarn, alors que Blur, jusque-là je le confesse, me laissait assez froid peut-être parce que je connaissais et aimais trop les groupes anglais dont Blur s’inspirait. C’est un peu le problème quand on commence à devenir vieux, ce qui était déjà mon cas dans les années 90, on commence à comparer la musique du moment à celle d’avant et c’est une position dont il n’est pas facile de sortir si on veut continuer à découvrir et à aimer de nouvelles choses.
Pas mieux. 🎵
I have been listening to Just Another Rainbow a couple of times. Solid song. Nothing very original: it sounds like Oasis covering The Stone Roses but… What’s wrong with that? Curious to here more. Good job Liam Gallagher and John Squire. 🎵
I revisited my 2010 playlist showcasing my favorite tracks from that year. It still stands the test of time, with the exception of that prevalent fuzzy production style you can hear on Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles or Women tracks. 🎵
Mark Oliver Everett, from the band eels, shares many excellent playlists on this Mr. E’s Beautiful Playlists page. Recommended. 🎵